Course on Cross Sector Collaboration

Thu, 15 Oct 2009

Need to know how to get Industry, Government and Community Leaders to work together on a politically difficult problem? A new course offered by CEC member Peter Adler addresses cross sector collaboration.

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CROSS SECTOR COLLABORATION

How to Get Industry, Government and Community Leaders To Work together on the Politically Difficult Problem

The Course

The most demanding public problems we face cannot be solved using only our conventional methods of decision-making. The problems we face are too complex, too tangled and too fast moving. Some of these problems – managing natural resources, creating sustainable agriculture, developing a stronger economic base, delivering health care, ensuring the safety of communities, or improving public education, to name just a few – require more adaptive, disciplined and productive cooperation processes. Solving them has to be a team sport.

This fast-paced and highly interactive training course is designed for organizations, experts, and leaders from community, government and business who want to organize specific collaborative efforts that avoid unproductive decision-making. The course requires advance preparation and can be tailored to specific issues and challenges.

Peter S. Adler, Ph.D. is President of The Keystone Center (www.keystone.org) which applies consensus-building and cutting-edge scientific information to energy, environment, and health-related policy problems. Adler's specialty is multi-party negotiation and problem solving. He has worked extensively on business and public policy problems and mediates, writes, trains, and teaches in diverse areas of conflict management. Prior to his appointment at Keystone, Adler held executive positions with the Hawaii Justice Foundation, the Hawaii Supreme Court, and Mediation Centers of the Pacific. He served as a President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution and was a Roberston-Cunninghame Scholar in Residence at the University of New England, New South Wales, Australia. Adler has written extensively in the field of mediation and conflict resolution. He is the author of Eye of the Storm Politics (RIS Inc, 2008) and numerous other publications on the art, craft and practice of conflict management.